 Liroconite from Wheal Gorland, its type locality | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
  Wheal Gorland Location in Cornwall | |
| Location | St Day |
| County | Cornwall |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 50°14′30″N 5°11′02″W / 50.2417°N 5.1839°W |
| Production | |
| Products | Copper, tin, arsenic and tungsten |
| History | |
| Opened | 1792, 1906 |
| Closed | 1864, 1909 |
Wheal Gorland was a metalliferous mine located just to the north-east of the village of St Day, Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom. It was one of the most important Cornish mines of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, both for the quantity of ore it produced and for the wide variety of uncommon secondary copper minerals found there[1] as a result of supergene enrichment.[2] It is the type locality for the minerals chenevixite, clinoclase, cornwallite, kernowite[3] and liroconite.[4]
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GCAwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Camborne School of Mines Virtual Museum - The Cornubian Orefield". University of Exeter. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
- ^ "Kernowite: New green mineral discovered in 220-year-old rock". BBC News. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ "Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK". mindat.org. Retrieved 20 June 2009.